Additionally, the programme promotes community awareness through organising cleanup drives, designing informative posters, and producing videos on important topics such as segregation of wet and dry waste and accessible legal services. Students have also contributed to mental health awareness by creating informational handouts for the community mental health initiative.

These sessions are led by faculty members and external experts in women's mental health and social work, covering topics such as mental health in daily life, stress and anger management, the connection between mind and body, and suicide prevention. Additionally, students volunteering at anganwadis support ASHA workers in their daily activities, further contributing to community well-being.

Student volunteers receive training through these organisations and apply their knowledge both on the VU campus and in neighbouring communities. Student groups have conducted mapping of local lakes and submitted recommendations to the respective Gram Panchayats to promote improved conservation practices. Additionally, they have surveyed nearby villages regarding waste segregation practices in collaboration with Ecogram. Students also conducted a thorough audit of Vidyashilp University’s waste management practices and submitted a detailed report on creating a sustainable and green campus, which was taken up by the administration.

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  Studio Regeneration
  Studio Regeneration is a community and ecology project under the VUCADI(Vidyashilp University Centre for Art, Design and Innovation), which operates in collaboration with the community engagement programme. The studio regeneration project involves the careful study and mapping of: public spaces; potential territories for regenerative public landscapes/parks connected to Panchayats (rural administrative unit); Lakes as dynamic centres for communities, etc. These concrete places and contexts can be declared as an open but curated playground of wider scale in the city of Bengaluru, and make it internationally known. Such a map can attract other creative or ecological groups to contribute and join a larger initiative, which can become a case study for many other cities in the world sharing similar conditions of rapid urbanisation.

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  Slow North Map – Research/Website:
  A Database with photographs, maps, descriptions and analyses: identifying potential spaces for intervention and collaboration. The map should contain: public spaces, parks, natural landscapes, lakes and connected communities, ngo’s active in North Bengaluru, local cultural/creative centres, artisans and craftspeople, and companies developing North Bengaluru.
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  Regenerative Urban Farming at Campus:
  In the format of a workshop, building with the students used wood raised beds and creating a constellation for an outdoor classroom for eventual meetings in future. Using the method of Lasagna Gardening* with the involvement of the students, the small farm can still deliver some vegetables and spices for the VU kitchen.
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  Regenerative Public Landscape (park):
  In Cooperation with the local Panchayat and School of Law, Vucadi is developing worlds 1st regenerative public Landscape on the 2 acres of proposed land. The territory already has the status of a public park. It has wonderful trees, a pond and a whole habitat of animals. Raumlabor renown architect group from Berlin, who initiated Floating University in Berlin, are invited to develop an intervention in relation to the pond. It will be the first case and experience of designing the existing landscape by regenerative methods and make simultaneously a public space in the soon urbanising part of Bengaluru.

These clinics play a crucial role in translating legal education into meaningful social service while strengthening the legal system’s reach at the grassroots.

What is a Legal Aid Clinic?
A Legal Aid Clinic is a community-oriented justice centre where trained law students, under the guidance of faculty and legal professionals, provide free legal guidance and support. At the clinic, individuals can:

• 1) Share their legal concerns
• 2) Understand their rights and entitlements
• 3) Receive guidance on government schemes and legal remedies
• 4) Be connected to appropriate authorities or institutions when required

Our Approach
Vidyashilp University has established its Legal Aid Clinic both on campus and off campus. While the on-campus clinic serves as a learning and training space for students, the off-campus clinic is located within the Panchayat, taking legal services directly into the heart of the community.

This approach reflects our belief that true legal education must go beyond classrooms and courtrooms. By situating the clinic within the community, we ensure that legal awareness and support reach those who need it the most.

• 1) To empower citizens with legal knowledge
• 2) To protect the rights of vulnerable and marginalised communities
• 3) To resolve local issues peacefully and lawfully
• 4) To make justice accessible, inclusive, and effective

These events are conducted in partnership with local communities, artisans, educational institutions, and panchayats, encouraging participation from university members and residents of surrounding areas in a variety of activities.